New Theory May Have Finally Solved The Disappearance Of Malaysia Flight 370

The theory comes from a man named Blaine Gibson. He has been obsessively hunting debris from MH370 for quite some time — and forcing authorities to listen to him. So he will know better than anybody that the plane's pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was a vital member of Malaysia Airlines that day.

Shah was 53 years old in 2014, and he was one of the senior captains of the airline. The experience he had under his belt — 18,365 hours in the air — was the reason no one was concerned that he had been tasked with accompanying an officer-in-training during the mysterious flight.

The trainee was 27-year-old Fariq Hamid. He had already flown for 2,763 hours and was working to become a first officer of Boeing 777-200s. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was slated to be his last training flight before his final exam. But that turned out to be a test he'd never take.

There was no reason to think anything suspicious was going to happen when the flight took off from the runway. This had happened with thousands of planes hundreds of times before, of course. So the passengers on board, just like with any flight, expected a safe trip.